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4681 [lbo-talk] LBO News from Doug Henwood -- rank: 72

... that in the absence of a comprehensive and tightly structured police state, it is fairly easy for an intelligent and determined ... we try and think about it. Even with a comprehensive police state, there will be flaws. But the USA is fairly ...

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Author:	Matt
Date:	Fri May 14 08:21:24 PDT 2010

4682 [lbo-talk] anti-pro contradictions -- rank: 72

... the pro-statist sentiments: support for the military, patriotism, westphalianism, police state, etc..." The American Right (also known as "Americans") is ...

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Author:	socialismorbarbarism
Date:	Mon May 10 13:02:27 PDT 2010

4683 [lbo-talk] EU gets serious -- rank: 72

True, but also seriously misleading. In the particular case, a revolution was not on the agenda, but the abrupt enttteriing of some 10% of the population into real rather than merely nominal citizenship. (See Tamas on the nature of 19th & 20th-c struggles as for equality rather than freedom.) This was ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon May 10 07:21:41 PDT 2010

4684 [lbo-talk] Deaths, during rebellion in Greece -- rank: 72

I received this communique this morning concerning the burning of the Marfin Bank branch in Athens during yesterday's uprising and general strike, in which 3 workers lost their lives. The Greek government, run by phony Socialists, is trying to blame the deaths on "anarchists" as a means of trying to ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Wed May 5 23:50:34 PDT 2010

4685 [lbo-talk] how did you become a lefty -- rank: 72

... few years later someone in Detroit sued the Michigan State Police for the records of their Red Squad, & I got a ... my sillly little letter was subversive & complained to the State Police. They

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed May 5 17:59:20 PDT 2010

4686 [lbo-talk] Twitter -- rank: 72

Are you saying that the woman should have had a gun, rather than a cell phone, so she could shoot the bipolar woman? (Maybe the woman was a snake, or a coyote, or a bear, or something else in disguise... maybe the woman with the cell phone was walking her daughters ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Tue May 4 12:36:28 PDT 2010

4687 [lbo-talk] Twitter -- rank: 72

... hospital. McCullough chased down the second masked man, whom Omaha police have identified as Angelo Douglas, 17, and held him until ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Tue May 4 11:53:56 PDT 2010

4688 [lbo-talk] the Stark and the Liberty -- rank: 72

The comparison of the Stark and the Liberty is an interesting one. To the extent that the muted U.S. response to the attack on the Liberty was similar to the muted US response to the attack on the Stark, it suggests that the answer to the question, "why didn't ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Sun Jun 6 05:44:04 PDT 2010

4689 [lbo-talk] U.S. in Israel's corner -- rank: 72

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > > What we have is the U.S.  assuming 'pubic' responsibility for a policy > which the other 'great' powers share bu would encounter greater domestic > problems than will the U.S. in being public about it ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Tue Jun 1 11:58:33 PDT 2010

4690 [lbo-talk] U.S. in Israel's corner -- rank: 72

"As I wrote someone on the list this is like saying that if someone breaks into your house, armed, in the middle of the night and you fight back with whatever you have at hand, you are "lynching" them. And the solution, is to let the attacker write an objective ...

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Author:	socialismorbarbarism
Date:	Tue Jun 1 11:34:25 PDT 2010

4691 [lbo-talk] Jobless Workers Look to Shift Elections -- rank: 72

I've read about scattered local actions over the past three years, frequently in black neighbourhoods, but has anything even remotely resembling the forms of struggle in the 30's by the unemployed and the evicted (national organizations, conferences, marches) appeared anywhere in the US over the past three years? An ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed Jul 28 16:50:30 PDT 2010

4692 [lbo-talk] Jobless Workers Look to Shift Elections -- rank: 72

UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/egd_02/egd_02_00522.html Unemployed Councils were grassroots organizations of unemployed workers created in the early 1930s to protest mass unemployment and inadequate relief. The first councils were established by the American Communist Party's Trade Union Unity League, an organization ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Jul 28 14:05:55 PDT 2010

4693 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Equal Justice Initiative: United States Considered Most Punitive Country in the World -- rank: 72

> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > >> "Mass incarceration in the United States continues at record high >> levels despite outsized costs. According to recent data reported in >> The Economist, the United States has the world's highest incarceration >> rate, locking up ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Tue Jul 27 17:11:24 PDT 2010

4694 [lbo-talk] Jesse Lemisch's New Politics blog: "Mean Bastards as Culture Heroes." -- rank: 72

... bound together in a complex that delights in meanness and brutality: Steinbrenner, The Boss,was known for firing people. So is ...

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Author:	Joanne Landy
Date:	Sat Jul 17 09:40:37 PDT 2010

4695 [lbo-talk] Pollin-Wonder: the press release -- rank: 72

... DC Public Schools teachers and staff, the DC fire and police department staffs, and the employees at George Washington and Sibley ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 14 05:39:52 PDT 2010